Communications
640 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 a Girl Scout training course has been a part of the...
...It seems that this enlightened twentieth century should people do expect of Catholics sane thought upon these matters, feel humiliated in allowing itself to be guided by religious based upon the practical application of Christian principles...
...There is no more compelling evidence is most anxious to enlist...
...It is natural that be made a national battle...
...New York to the Pope...
...Disappointment grows easily Daughters of America-is another valuable aid...
...The Cleveland conference was They learn to think of their activities in terms of the group most distinctly a step in the direction of Catholic education: as well as of individuals...
...This we feel the scout movement does achieve, and TO the Editor:-In a back number of your excellent magathat this awakened and developed "social consciousness" is zine, I noticed a magnificent condemnation of the evils afterward of noblest use to humanity...
...Is Governor Smith competent to be a good become increasingly evident that the right solution of inter- efficient President...
...the influence of the war debts and foreign in- Take specific individuals...
...tear and peace...
...It is a workshop, a labora- education and the schooling of Catholic youth for material tory, wherein girls play at tasks that will be theirs as women...
...If we have what we claim ganizations-the National Council of Catholic Women, the to have, we have also very definite responsibilities toward our International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, the Catholic neighbors and fellow-citizens...
...At every turn in the United of the troop as a miniature community, a pattern of the adult States, we are confronted by the distinction between Catholic world, is one of its finest aspects...
...This is especially true in their unfair and brutal atland on October I9, for the discussion of international relations...
...If we do not measure up to these expectations, if, instead REV...
...RAYMOND VERNIMONT...
...The first and T O the Editor:-The Commonweal of October 13 has essential preliminary is to think it through on the basis of an item headed The Battle of Gotham, which should knowledge-which very few of us possess...
...that must dominate the purposes of the individual...
...titude toward any student who has the manhood and courage Some of the subjects discussed were: Christian principles of to attack some of the evils of college fraternities...
...Did he threaten to guide the state of falls of prosecuting war or carrying war debts...
...Has national problems calls loudly for understanding of those prob- he not made a good governor since the great state reelected lems in some adequate measure by those upon whom the burden him for his fifth term...
...He is considered one of our nobleIt is also increasingly evident that in the United States men...
...Catholic faith, and with the undoubted participation therein of the influence of the Third Internationale, it becomes urgently THE BATTLE OF GOTHAM necessary for American Catholics to understand what is happening and to do what it is proper for them to do and what Denton, Texas...
...program, be it that of the Girl Scouts or anything else, has fulfilled a great use if it helps develop a sense of obligation EVILS OF COLLEGE FRATERNITIES toward others, an abiding conviction that service is due, each Colorado Springs, Colo...
...to each...
...Within their into resentment and hostility toward claims unsupported by numbers are many potential leaders of the type the movement compelling evidence...
...it is their duty to do in the circumstances...
...and through that it is to enlarge this viewpoint, to put the welfare of the com- understanding and application, the formation of character and munity, of humanity, before the unfolding mind as the end of a sane, logical opinion and influence in the body politic...
...Last year at a western college, vestments and trade upon war and peace...
...continent where the majority of the inhabitants belong to the HUMPHREY VVEBB...
...the scouts acquire concerning health, responsibility, reverence, The editors of The Commonweal have announced recently training in citizenship, and homemaking...
...their application to place the welfare of the patrol-the troop...
...of college fraternities by Mr...
...since the world war, it has this contest...
...the formation of a a wonderful young man wrote a scathing indictment of fraternpermanent committee of Catholic Americans on international ity evils, and there were some fraternity members evil-minded relations, etc...
...The growing interest of the national women's or- appointed, and have a right to be...
...If so, all else should be sidetracked...
...O the Editor:-Under the auspices of the National Coun- Although the fraternities have received much severe and decil of Catholic Men, the National Council of Catholic served censure, the contemptible practices of individual fraternWomen, and the Social Action Department of the National ity members have not received the condemnation that they Catholic Welfare Conference, a conference was held at Cleve- deserve...
...Ernest Sutherland Bates...
...prejudice...
...Bates is a wonderful scholar as well as a wonderful writer, COMMUNICATIONS and the publication of such an article shows, not only the noble crusading spirit of the author, but also the fair-mindedTTHE CONFERENCE AT CLEVELAND ness of the editors...
...Common sense and not party spirit should guide in have heretofore been specialties...
...Let all parties be heard pro and we should not, in general, possess adequate knowledge of the con, concerning the candidacy for the Presidency of Alfred E. subject, for history and the study of international relations Smith...
...than the logic of thought resting on Christian principles apThe community, in turn, has much to gain by the knowledge plied to public life...
...ends in moral surroundings...
...enough to take exception to it...
...Yet, the function a discussion of Catholic education...
...Any junior WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...The most dishonest and unfair The associations `who were responsible for this gathering are of these was a nonentity who, if he had a particle of honesty, to be congratulated ; their effort was most timely for, with the would have to admit that the exposure of fraternity evils recrudescence of illiberal liberalism in several countries on this showed courage and a fine spirit of independence in thought...
...I have no adverse criticism to make, but Washington, D. C. I wish to add a supplement to his fine article...
...How necessary to every-day problems, private and public...
...640 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 a Girl Scout training course has been a part of the curriculum of clear and logical thought, we offer ill-considered mass opinin each of twenty Catholic colleges in various parts of the ion, people who expect better things of us are bitterly discountry...
...Above their own wishes, they learn of the understanding of Christian principles...
...May reason and common sense soon replace it...
Vol. 4 • November 1926 • No. 26
